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Goodbye Laupenstrasse!

It will soon be over, the time when our association had its home in Laupenstrasse. And even though we have every reason to look forward to the new location and all the great stories we will experience in Güterstrasse, we want to raise our glasses to Laupenstrasse once again!

We’re saying goodbye to Laupenstrasse with one last social event. This is a ‘Bring your own Beer’ event so that we don’t have to do a lot of shopping and move any drinks and food that haven’t been consumed.

We will meet on Thursday, 23 January 2025 from 18:00 – approx. 20:00 on Laupenstrasse for a cosy get-together and a chat. And maybe there will be one or two first-hand progress reports from the construction site!

A charity dinner with a catch

On this second Wednesday of the month, the Pathfinder Society meets again in the vaults of the association: 08. January 2025 at 17:30 until approx. 23:00 we agents will go on another adventure. It will be the adventure 6-01: Intro into the Year of Immortal Influence and will be played in Swiss German (or in standard German if this works better for individual players).


The Pathfinders find themselves invited to a charity dinner to benefit the Knights of Lastwall fighting in far-off lands against the lich king, Tar-Baphon. In the middle of dinner, evidence of a strange ritual arises, and the Pathfinders must investigate before dinner becomes a murder mystery!


The adventure is suitable for characters of levels 1-4. It is also open to new players who do not yet have any role-playing experience and/or are not yet familiar with the Pathfinder system in its 2nd edition.

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You can sign up via Meetup.
Keep in mind that this adventure will be played in German.

Header image courtesy of Paizo Inc.

System of the Month January: Brindlewood Bay

Put away your knitting and close up the gardening shed, because the sheriff of Brindlewood Bay has just approached you with news of another mysterious death in Brindlewood Bay! And who better to solve this week’s mystery than you, dear Murder Maven, and your fellow krimi bookclub members? Investigate and meddle to your hearts’ content, but be wary of the dark and the secrets it holds.

Brindlewood Bay is a PBtA cozy crime drama inspired by TV shows such as Murder, She Wrote, with cosmic horror undertones. Play is both narrative and collaborative. The solution to the mystery is not set in advance, but discovered together through clue gathering and the success (or failure) of your theories!

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The event is fully booked.

Picture credits: Illustration from the role-playing game Brindlewood Bay.

Happy holidays and a happy new year!

Dear members, dear role-players!

December is almost over and it’s time for another year in review. It was a year of some ups and supposed downs, a year full of exciting adventures, fantastic encounters and unforgettable moments at the table – be it epic battles, shady intrigues or creative manoeuvres by our heroes that drove the GMs to the brink of despair.

The past year was a year of growth. Our room was booked more than twice as often as in the previous year (160 bookings), we held 57 KuL events and public games and offered several other activities (such as the «Master’s Talk» or «From Player to GM»). We have now grown to 40 members who support our association and share in our association’s philosophy and purpose. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your enthusiasm, your help and, of course, your membership. A huge thank you!

So, the new year is almost upon us. We hope you can enjoy the festive season to the fullest, whether it’s with the people you care about or with strangers* in a cosy, exciting and/or nerve-wracking role-playing session to round off the month. May the year ahead be just as exciting for you – with even more fantastic adventures, creative ideas and a consistently good roll for initiative.

We look forward to giving you a detailed review and outlook of what the board is up to at the general meeting in January 2025: the new location, for example – but also the successor to our Arcanor campaign. If you want to find out more now and don’t want to wait until 16 January 2025, take a look at the association’s annual report linked below.

Happy holidays and a wonderful new year.

* = Or as attributed to William Butler Yeats: «There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.»

Image credit: Christmas dice from Q-Workshop

The planet whose shell is breaking

The second Wednesday in December will be a little different to what Pathfinder Society members are used to. To round off 2024, GM Jarekk82 would like to take you on an adventure in space. The playtest for the new edition of ‘Starfinder’, which transfers the familiar rules of ‘Pathfinder 2E’ into the future, will run until summer 2025.

So this time it’s time for the Starfinder Society to meet in the vaults of the association. On 11 December 2024 at 17:30 until around 22:30, we Star Scouts will be going on an adventure. The adventure is Playtest-01: Shards of the Glass Planet and will be played in Swiss German (or in standard German if this works better for individual participants).


For millennia, Birnam’s Bubble has been a planet untouched by outsiders, fully encapsulated in an impenetrable shield of unknown energy and protected by powerful automated defenses. Through this barrier, explorers and surveyors have glimpsed pristine settlements, verdant flora, and inexplicable magical emanations—yet no fauna or citizens populate the world’s surface.

As in many other parts of the galaxy, the Drift Crisis changed everything. Now, the energy barrier surrounding Birnam’s Bubble cracks like shattering glass, and shards of this solidified energy have begun to fall through the atmosphere to the planet’s surface, causing significant destruction. Enter the breach and uncover the secrets of the lost civilizations of Birnam’s Bubble before they’re lost forever!


The adventure is played with pre-made characters (pre-gens). It is also open to new players who do not yet have any role-playing experience and/or are not yet familiar with the Pathfinder system in its 2nd edition. (There will be an option to get boons for your Pathfinder Society account if you already play Pathfinder Society.)

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You can sign up via Meetup.
Keep in mind that this adventure will be played in German.

Header image courtesy of Paizo Inc.

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